Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafón Spanish: is a Spanish novelist...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1964
CountrySpain
humble intellectual experts
He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant and the feeble-minded as intellectual.
ideas lessons speech
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
blow people suffering
Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
art hate
To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
hands brain spirit
I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.
men age vices
A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
memories bullets
Memories are worse than bullets.
memories war voice
Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened,
fate scar coincidence
Coincidences are the scars of fate.
kings book voice
A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
nurse silence deeds
The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
dream book two
In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.
time past faster
Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.
hero able sides
In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.